Concepts & Themes:

This week’s assignment will encompass the following concepts, some of which will be previewed during the Class 1 lecture orientation:

General Course Orientation:

To start, you will need to create your CARTO account that will be used for the duration of the course. While CARTO has several packages available for signup, we will be using the New School University account. You can find out about the CARTO student pack Here, which is different from the CARTO account you will use for this course. This secondary package requires a valid university email address. If you choose to use this option in the future, we will first need to delete your student account used in this course. In other words, you cannot use the same university email address for two separate CARTO accounts. To follow here, you will utilize your university email account to enact your first CARTO account within the New School University account:

The New School CARTO platform Signup

If you have any particular problems during your signup, you can query at the Slack #technical-qa channel. Alternatively, you can email the Admin at the University Account:

Acquire Data - Natural Earth:

Note: for weekly assignments that require a data upload to CARTO, keep in mind that your account has a size limit, typically 100mb. You will want to keep an eye on your upload sizes. For this first assignment, anything with a total upload size of <1mb is ideal.

3 map scales are available at Natural Earth. - To follow is the test dataset we will use for this assignment guide:

Populated Places - less columns, simple version 36.51kb.

Note: this is the same dataset that is used in the CARTO Guide - Getting Started with CARTO Builder.

Zip folder contains .shp for populated places.

Population and Rank Columns. ## Prepare and Upload Data to CARTO:

geojson file format for the Natural Earth data.

sucessful upload to CARTO

Note:if the upload fails, refresh the browser and wait a few minutes. Typically this will clear any ‘unknown’ upload errors.

Note: CARTO will add several new columns to the upload dataset. These new columns are discussed in the CARTO Guide - Importing API V1. This guide is very useful to understand the CARTO upload process generally.

Symbolize Data within CARTO:

Click Create Map icon, lower-right

Map instance prior to symbolization

Styling tab within the dataset layer

Proportionally styling the points features

Simple Legend Creation for Cities within the Populated Places dataset based on color

Simple Legend Creation for Cities within the Populated Places dataset based on size

Basemap Options with CARTO

Publishing the map within CARTO:

Public - with Link

Publish Tab

Share Link

Assignment 1 deliverable - CARTO Published Map:


Resources: